Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart's last gasp may be to join forces with Jesse Jackson against Mondale. In several states, Hart and Jackson operatives are cooperating to elect more delegates and gain seats on the credentials and rules committees at the convention, where they can press charges that Mondale manipulated or evaded party rules to garner more than his fan" share of delegates...
...group of Viet Nam veterans, many of them dressed in camouflage fatigues, formed up outside the Capitol, where the Unknown Soldier had lain in state for three days. The vets tried to join the line of march-some military bands and representatives of the services and veterans groups-that was to escort the caisson to Arlington. The police intervened. Once again, as in the war, there was a gap between official policy and the will of the grunts. Once again, some Viet Nam veterans were being denied the soldier's crucial ceremony of return from war: the parade...
...times over the past year, the last session, in March in Managua, turned into an anti-U.S. diatribe. Impressed by the Mexican President's plea, Reagan told Shultz to try for a meeting. The Nicaraguans readily agreed, though an argument over where to meet (Shultz, due to join Reagan in Europe, insisted on Managua's airport, while the Sandinistas held out for the city itself) made the venture uncertain right...
...have been the extreme right or the extreme left," said Adolfo ("Popo") Chamorro, spokesman for the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), the contra group that Pastora commands. Especially curious is the timing of the explosion. Since last year, the CIA has been pressuring ARDE and its 4,000 guerrillas to join forces with the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), the 8,000-strong contra group based in Honduras. ARDE's political leaders, notably Alfonso Robelo Callejas, favored the alliance, but Pastora adamantly rejected it unless the F.D.N. got rid of several commanders who were members of Nicaragua's hated National...
...Salvador, Duarte faces the Herculean task of fighting a civil war while persuading the country's businessmen and military officers to accept reforms that might induce the leftist rebels to give up their arms and join the fragile democracy. Before taking over from interim President Alvaro Magaña last week, he announced that he would reappoint General Eugenic Vides Casanova as Defense Minister, but only on condition that he cleanse the armed forces of their links with the coun try's death squads. A week earlier, Vides Casanova had removed Colonel Nicolas Carranza from his post...